Orr and Baylor officials also have rearranged parts of the campus’s Moody Memorial Library to encourage collaboration among students. Library staff did away with the traditional library layout and bought desks and chairs that were more easily moveable for groups of students who gather for late-night study sessions.
“We’re happy for them to move [desks and chairs] however it best fits them,” she said. “We want … to encourage that kind of teamwork.”
Universities and their libraries have steadily moved resources to the web this decade, but Orr said digitization has its limits.
No matter how prominent internet use becomes among college students, she said, old-fashioned, hard-covered books will always have a place on campus.
“It’s hard to improve upon a book,” she said. “It’s portable and durable and easy to use. … Print publications aren’t going away any time soon.”
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